The Risk of Cancer in Patients with Generalized Anxiety Disorder: A Nationwide Population-Based Study

• Cheng-Che Shen ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cheng-Che Shen, Yu-Wen Hu

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Chiayi Branch, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan

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• Yu-Wen Hu ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Cheng-Che Shen, Yu-Wen Hu

  Affiliations School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Cancer Center, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Li-Yu Hu,

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Yuli Veterans Hospital, Hualian, Taiwan

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• Man-Hsin Hung,

  Affiliation Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Tung-Ping Su,

  Affiliations School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Min-Wei Huang,

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Chiayi Branch, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Chiayi, Taiwan

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• Chia-Fen Tsai,

  Affiliations School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Psychiatry, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Shuo-Ming Ou,

  Affiliation Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Sang-Hue Yen,

  Affiliations School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Cancer Center, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Biomedical Imaging and Radiological Sciences, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Cheng-Hwai Tzeng,

  Affiliations School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Tzeon-Jye Chiou,

  Affiliations School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Tzeng-Ji Chen,

  Affiliation Department of Family Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan

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• Chia-Jen Liu

  * E-mail: chiajenliu@gmail.com

  Affiliations School of Medicine, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Institute of Public Health, National Yang-Ming University, Taipei, Taiwan, Division of Hematology and Oncology, Department of Medicine, Taipei Veterans General Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan, Department of Internal Medicine, National Yang-Ming University Hospital, Yilan, Taiwan

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